Cold War

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Assessment Security and Access

We have restricted access to assessments to EDUCATORS ONLY. 

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We will try to respond to all access requests within 72 hours. We are sorry if this delay causes any inconvenience. 

We have restricted access to assessments to EDUCATORS ONLY. 

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You will need to provide your official school email address AND a Google email address. In some cases, these will be the same email account. You will only need to fill the form out once to gain access to all of the assessments and teacher materials in the curriculum.

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We will try to respond to all access requests within 72 hours. We are sorry if this delay causes any inconvenience. 

Assessment Security and Access

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Students will recall content learned in unit 9 and organize and align content according to the two unit themes (foreign policy and change).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 9 essential questions.

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After you fill out the form, you will receive notification that you have been added to a Google Group called "New Visions Social Studies Assessments Access." Once you receive that notification, you can access all of the assessments through the New Visions Social Studies Curriculum website, but you must be logged into the Google account you provided in the form to view the assessments. 

We will try to respond to all access requests within 72 hours. We are sorry if this delay causes any inconvenience

Unit planning document for teachers to shape and plan around content included in unit 11.9

Four introductory vocabulary routines to introduce content and concepts.  

Students complete a mad-libs style reading worksheet to review content 

Students will preview content and themes from Unit 9 

Through a jigsaw activity, students will review key events, key terms, and key issues from 1941 - 1947, that led to the development of the Cold War between the USSR and the USA. 

Students will compare and contrast primary sources created by George Keenan and Henry Wallace to compare and contrast early views on foreign policy and the Cold War.  

Students will review a comprehensive timeline of the Cold War.  

Students will analyze two primary sources to build an understanding of the Truman Doctrine.  Students will then compare the documents to a famous political cartoon from the time period. 

Students will compare and contrast multiple sources on the Marshall Plan. 

Students will use the evidence from the documents provided to explain how the primary sources contributed to an atmosphere of paranoia and hysteria.

Students will be able to connect the events of the Korean War to the US policy of containment.  

Students will analyze an extensive timeline. 

Students will compare and contrast, as well as analyze, three political cartoons from the Vietnam War.  

Students will use evidence from the documents provided to explain how disagreement with the Vietnam War lead to disillusionment with the government.

Students will analyze two primary source documents. 

Students will analyze two sources to better understand the impact of the Vietnam War on Latinos. 

Students will use the documents provided to write a short response explaining why President Eisenhower addressed the American public about America's role as a global leader, the expansion of the military, the military industrial complex, and changes in scientific research.

Students will use the documents provided to explain why the United States and Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war in 1962.

Students will analyze a timeline and excerpts from President Kennedy's speech on the Space Race.  

Students will answer questions based on the public service announcements created during the Cold War including Duck and Cover, as well as Survival Under an Atomic Attack.  

Students will use the evidence provided from the documents to discuss how the Cold War affected United States domestic policy and American society.

Timeline and analysis questions reviewing the nuclear arms race from 1938 to 1991. 

This inquiry asks students to consider the separation of powers and checks and balances built into the US Constitution. 

Students will recall content learned in unit 9 and organize and align content according to the two unit themes (foreign policy and change).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 9 essential questions.